Brexit Party Electoral Commission to visit Brexit party offices over funding concernsThe Guardian - Severin Carrell Scotland editor, and Frances PerraudinThe Electoral Commission has said it will attend the offices of Nigel Farage’s Brexit party to “review its systems” after Gordon Brown urged them to investigate concerns over the legality of the party’s
Esther McVey A working-class hero pitch from the Tories' chief food bank apologistThe Guardian - John CraceThe phoney war is over. Tory MPs have given up even pretending the prime minister is of any importance. Theresa May is now officially a non-person. Not even a disembodied, metallic Maybot gurgle. A woman
Politics Tory party suspends Michael Heseltine for backing Lib DemsThe Guardian - Kevin RawlinsonLord Heseltine has had the Conservative whip suspended after saying he would vote Liberal Democrat in this week’s European elections, the party has said. The Tory grandee and former deputy prime minister,
Esther McVey Tory leadership battle intensifies as McVey and Rudd tout visionsThe Guardian - Peter Walker and Rajeev SyalThe battle to succeed Theresa May has escalated as almost half a dozen contenders from various wings of the Conservative party either touted their visions for the future or spent the day busily refusing
Brexit Tories scrabble for new Brexit vision in place of Theresa May's 'doomed' planThe Guardian - Peter Walker Political correspondentThe expected demise of Theresa May’s Brexit plan has sparked open lobbying over an alternative Tory vision, with the chancellor, Philip Hammond, arguing that proponents of a no-deal Brexit are betraying
Change UK 'Politics isn't going to wait for you': has Change UK missed its moment?The Guardian - Jessica ElgotWhen Chuka Umunna and his six Labour colleagues dramatically resigned from their party in early February, Umunna said he intended to move quickly and form a new party by the end of the year. But like many
Play buttonHeinz-Christian Strache Europe's centrists draw on Austrian scandal to issue far-right warningThe Guardian - Jon Henley Europe correspondentPoliticians from mainstream parties across Europe have called on voters to shun the far right in this week’s European elections after Austria’s vice-chancellor resigned over a video sting that showed offering
Penny Mordaunt Mordaunt pledges to review internal MoD torture guidanceThe Guardian - Frances PerraudinThe defence secretary, Penny Mordaunt, has vowed to review Ministry of Defence internal guidance on the sharing with allies of intelligence derived from torture. An MoD policy document, published following
Opinion (UK) European elections: tactical voting and strategic thinking for remainersThe Guardian - LettersAfter nearly 30 years as a Labour activist, the last few as a councillor, I have with a heavy heart decided to vote Lib Dem David Hardman I don’t want my vote to be misrepresented as pro-Brexit. So I vote
Play buttonNigel Farage Nigel Farage doused with milkshake in NewcastleThe Guardian - Matthew WeaverNigel Farage has been hit by a milkshake in Newcastle city centre, after a spate of similar incidents against far-right candidates in the European elections campaign. The Brexit party leader appeared be
Brexit European elections 2019: am I registered to vote and why do I get those leaflets?The Guardian - Martin BelamHow can I be sure if I am registered to vote? You needed to be registered by 7 May 2019 to be able to vote in these elections. Registration was complicated by the fact that EU citizens who want to vote
Guy Verhofstadt Guy Verhofstadt: ‘If you want to see what nationalists have done, come to Britain'The Guardian - Tim AdamsThe documentary chose some of the more dramatic moments over two years. How you see it depends on your point of view Guy Verhofstadt Rwanda transcended everything. When I looked back, in my previous period,
Brexit Pro- and anti-Brexit parties neck and neck in EU election, says pollThe Guardian - Mark Rice-OxleyThree in five British voters say politics in Westminster and Brussels is broken, according to a poll that finds pro- and anti-Brexit parties are running neck and neck ahead of the European elections on
News Europe's Greens ready to be kingmakers in EU electionsThe Guardian - Jon Henley Europe correspondent and Philip Oltermann in BerlinEurope’s Greens are on course for their strongest showing to date in next week’s European elections – and could find themselves kingmakers in a newly fragmented EU parliament. “We’ll be at the table,”
Labour Party Labour is broken to the core, says former Blair minister Jane KennedyThe Guardian - Josh Halliday North of England correspondentThe former Labour minister Jane Kennedy has said the party is “broken to the core” and has been hijacked by “something really nasty and dark in the hard left”. Kennedy, the police and crime commissioner
European Union Irreconcilable Brexit tribes create a split-screen EU electionThe Guardian - Mark LeonardAs we enter the last days before the European elections, neither leave nor remain has won the argument. The more noise the parties make, the less voters seem to be listening. Our latest poll, as part our
Sajid Javid Sajid Javid announces overhaul of espionage and treason lawsThe Guardian - Jamie Grierson Home affairs correspondentHostile state actors – spies, assassins or hackers directed by the government of another country – are to be targeted by refreshed espionage and treason laws, the home secretary has announced. In a speech
News UK to appoint first human rights ambassadorThe Guardian - Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editorThe British government is appointing an international ambassador dedicated to the promotion of human rights, in a move that is likely to put the UK’s patchy approach to autocratic regimes under greater
Change UK Change UK Scottish candidate urges colleagues to vote for other partiesThe Guardian - Peter Walker Political correspondentThe top Change UK choice in Scotland for this week’s European elections has written an open letter to his fellow party candidates urging them to consider following his lead and voting for the Liberal or
Black Voters 'We can make a stand': the Extinction Rebellion activist hoping to be an MEPThe Guardian - Matthew TaylorFew prospective MEPs will be in the middle of their first year undergraduate exams when hundreds of millions of people across Europe go to the polls later this week. But 19-year-old Londoner Daze Aghaji
News Brexit party's funding must be investigated, says Gordon BrownThe Guardian - Heather Stewart, Carole Cadwalladr and Frances PerraudinThe Electoral Commission is under mounting pressure to launch an investigation into the funding of Nigel Farage’s Brexit party because of concerns that its donation structure could allow foreign interference
Opinion (UK) Corbyn and Blair – a tale of two treacheries?The Guardian - LettersI agree with the point Gary Younge is making (Don’t give up on Labour now. It’s been much worse than this, 17 May). For those lifelong Labour voters who have stuck with the party through thick and thin,
Nigel Farage Scotland won't be independent within EU, says FarageThe Guardian - Libby Brooks Scotland correspondentNigel Farage has called on “genuine Scottish nationalists” to vote for his Brexit party in next week’s EU elections, as he described Nicola Sturgeon’s campaign for an independent Scotland within Europe
Nigel Farage Rage, rapture and pure populism: on the road with Nigel FarageThe Guardian - Paul LewisNigel Farage is barely visible in the middle of a scrum of bodyguards, protesters, TV cameras and boom mics barrelling up Merthyr Tydfil high street. “There’s definitely more cameras than shoppers,” jokes
Matt Hancock MPs have a duty to pass Theresa May's Brexit deal, says HancockThe Guardian - Peter Walker and Heather StewartMPs have “a duty” to pass Theresa May’s Brexit deal in the House of Commons and ensure the UK leaves the EU, the health secretary has said, as the prime minister and her team prepared for a final push
Syria British nationals to be banned from parts of Syria under new lawThe Guardian - Jamie GriersonBritish nationals are to be banned from entering or remaining in parts of conflict-stricken Syria in the first use of a controversial new power. The home secretary, Sajid Javid, will reveal on Monday he
Brexit Tories urge leadership contenders to prioritise climate emergencyThe Guardian - Heather Stewart Political editorModerate Conservatives including Nicky Morgan and Amber Rudd are urging contenders for their party’s leadership to put the battle against the climate emergency at the forefront of the contest. The 60-strong
News Theresa May prepares 'bold' last-ditch offer to MPs on Brexit billThe Guardian - Heather Stewart Political editorTheresa May will ask her cabinet to sign off a package of Brexit concessions this week, as she gears up for one last bid to win over MPs and salvage something concrete from her troubled premiership. With
Play buttonNews Corbyn defends Labour's bid for both leavers and remainersThe Guardian - Heather Stewart Political editorJeremy Corbyn has given a robust defence of Labour’s decision to try to appeal to both leavers and remainers in this Thursday’s European elections. With an Observer poll suggesting Labour could be squeezed
